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Getting the Most Out of Performance Measurement
Performance measurement can present tricky challenges for management, especially when dealing with cultural resistance. This collection of articles explains how to implement…
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Quality Measurement
Organizations must maintain a high level of quality in both customer-facing and internal processes. Measurement is key to increasing performance, but quality is an elusive…
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How to Report Quality in a Suite of Measures
Including a small suite of two to five quality measures in an executive measurement report ensures that leaders are aware of quality levels and trends and can address issues…
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APQC recommends maintaining an awareness of these three factors—frequency, standardization, and transparency—when developing quality measurement to ensure that the…
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Project Management Basics
This collection contains articles that discuss topics related to project, program, and portfolio management. They include classic APQC pieces that give insight into best…
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In today’s complex organizations, it can be difficult to understand where inefficiencies stem from and how performance can be enhanced. The use of “process improvement” as an…
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Creating End-to-End Processes
An end-to-end understanding of work processes is critical for almost any aspect of managing business operations. In mapping out processes, organizations need to both…
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Managing Change
Most improvements in organizations require some degree of change. Navigating new territory and supporting employees through the change takes planning and care. This…
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This best practice has been updated from the original published in 2011. Change management is at the core of any improvement or initiative. This article explains how best…
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Common Process Management Roles
To retain market share, evolve, and adapt, organizations need a strong foundation in process management. This foundation is not built on the processes themselves—after all,…
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The most common way organizations use the PCF in their mapping efforts is as a reference list of processes to consider during their mapping—so they don’t have to start from…
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This collection brings together summaries of APQC’s major process and performance management research projects from the past five years. All the summaries are open to the…
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APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management
To build strong processes across the enterprise, organizations must establish a firm foundation based on seven critical tenets. Using real life examples from APQC research,…
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Tools to Evolve BPM's Strategic Value
In our recent research on process automation, APQC found that business process management is potentially more important than ever before. Process management has many of the…
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As organizations increasingly embrace a process-focused operating model, end-to-end global process owners (GPOs) have become a key role in the management and development of…